Mogadishu

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Unknown gunmen shot the Mogadishu Bureau Chief for the independent, U.K.-based Somali Channel Television on October 12, 2014, outside his home in the Howlwadaag neighborhood in the capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports.

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My mother once sarcastically told me she could allow for my death, but couldn't live with seeing my leg or hand amputated or with a lost eye after reporting from a battlefield. It was when she first learned that I had been secretly studying journalism in May 2005. The news made her distraught. She wanted me to go to school for medicine upon completing high school and become a doctor; my father wanted me to be a sheikh--an Islamic scholar. I wanted to be a journalist, but didn't dare tell them.

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New York, June 23, 2014--Authorities in Somalia must immediately investigate the murder of a Somali journalist in Mogadishu on Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Yusuf Ahmed Abukar, who also used the name Yusuf Keynan, was killed when a bomb believed to be attached to his car exploded while he was on his way to work, according to news reports. Yusuf was a reporter for Mustaqbal radio, a privately owned station in Mogadishu, and Ergo radio, a Nairobi-based station that covered humanitarian affairs, reports said.

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On the morning of Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Somali
television journalist Mohamed Mohamud, nicknamed "Tima'ade," was seriously
wounded when unknown armed men attacked him on his way home from work. He was
shot more than five times. Colleagues
and local residents in Wadajir district, where the attack took place, immediately
rushed him to Madina Hospital in Mogadishu.

Nairobi, October 22,
2013--Somali authorities must work quickly to identify the motive in today's
murder attempt on a broadcast reporter and bring the perpetrators to justice,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalist, Mohamed
Mohamud, has been hospitalized with serious injuries.

Nairobi, August 19,
2013--Three assailants killed veteran radio technician Ahmed Sharif Hussein
outside of his home in the Shibis
neighborhood of Mogadishu on Saturday, according to news reports and local
journalists.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsequent to the publication of this report, questions were raised about the veracity of the account given by the primary sources. CPJ has published two follow-up reports detailing those questions, which raise doubts as to whether a killing took place as described. CPJ continues to monitor the case.

Nairobi, March 25,
2013--Somali authorities must immediately investigate the murder of a
radio journalist who was shot dead on Sunday evening in Mogadishu, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Nairobi, January 18,
2013--A veteran producer for the Shabelle Media Network was gunned down
today in Mogadishu, the fifth Shabelle journalist killed in 13 months. The
Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this murder and calls on Somali
authorities to not only investigate, but to follow up on the investigative task
force on journalist murders that was promised by Somali President Hassan Sheikh
Mohamoud in November.

Unidentified
assailants shotShabelle producer Abdihared Osman Aden at
around 7 a.m. today while he was walking to work in the Wadajir district of the
capital, according to local journalists and news
reports. The journalist, who was shot at least three times, died at a local
hospital, the sources said.

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Nairobi, January 11,
2013--Somali authorities should immediately release a freelance
journalist who has been in custody in Mogadishu since Thursday for interviewing
a woman who claimed she was raped by government soldiers, the Committee to
Protect Journalists said today.